So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
JERRY GARCIAThe world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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